Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | March 1, 2004 | Copyright

Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas. Richard Bourke. Pimlico. [pounds sterling]10.00. xvii + 462 pages. ISBN 1-8441-3316-8. The author, who was born in Dublin but now teaches in London, discusses Northern Ireland's 'troubles' from the late 1960s to the present attempt at a settlement, the period from 'apparently insurmountable civil strife to the achievement of political agreement'. Behind the sectarian killing and intransigent attitudes lies, he argues, 'a collision of ideas'. The dispute was 'a product of modern democracy ... the value of political equality' i.e., Ulster's ...

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